Too Venal for Words category archive
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
California State Sen. Scott Wiener, reacting to Donald Trump’s attempt to defund the Presidio Trust, which oversees the Presidio Park in San Francisco:
Trump . . . can’t tolerate success if it doesn’t benefit him personally.
This New Gilded Age (Updated) 0
It Can Happen Here 0
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School, argues that it is, indeed, already happening here.
He notes that
He goes on to list several specific indicators that we are seeing this process right here right now right before our eyes.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Trudy Rubin hears a rhyme.
It must be free verse, as somehow “Donald Trump” manages to rhyme with “Neville Chamberlain.”
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*Mark Twain.
Echoes of Immorality 0
For some fool reason, this article seems to remind me of someone in the news.
I wonder just who it could be?
The Unelected Co-Conspirator, Reprise 0
Thom Hartmann talks with Representative Mark Pocan about possible motivations for Elon Musk’s recent DOGEy actions.
A Tune for the Times 0
A short tune about Donald Trump’s reaction to the Washington–I refuse to call it “Reagan”–National Airport crash.
The Crypto Con 0
Jacob Silverman talks with Sam and Emma about the growing threat of greater US government involvement in crypto, with state and local governments pondering active investments in the scam-centric industry, and how a Trump presidency will likely expedite that.
A BLT on Wry 0
At NJ.com, Roy Lehman makes a strong case that the successor to DEI will be BLT. He picks as an one example our (shiver) new Secretary of Defense. Here’s a bit:
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
As cynical as I have become been made, I must admit that this rather takes me aback.
I expect that my father, who was in the Ardennes, would be appalled.
The Rule of Flaw 0
A Solomonic ruling rooted in Cannon law.
Vaccine Nation 0
At the Des Moines Register, Kimberly Witt remembers her mother’s struggles with polio when she was still a child, before the vaccine existed. She fears that Donald Trump and RFK Jr. will bring those days back.
Here’s tiny piece from her article:
“I was at the top of the stairs crying, and my parents had to carry me down,” my mom recalls. They took her to the doctor where she was diagnosed with paralytic polio.